When I run the following statement, I see the result as shown below: select LOCALITY, sum(GRANSIZE) gransize from sys.x$ksmge group by LOCALITY ; LOCALITY SUM_GRANSIZE ---------- --------------- 129 3,254,779,904 5 2,130,706,432 1 2,147,483,648 2 2,130,706,432 3 2,130,706,432 0 2,147,483,648 4 2,130,706,432 --------------- sum 16,072,572,928 I understand that numbers 0-5 refer to the memory boards on the system. In my case there are six boards (24 dual-core CPUs) and each board has memory on it. What does number 129 refer to? -----Original Message----- From: Taylor, Chris David [mailto:Chris.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:53 AM To: kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx; Hameed, Amir Cc: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: RE: ASSM - dynamic memory resizing Personally, I love it when ASSM forces the shared pool to 3x the size of the buffer cache, by taking memory _away_ from the buffer cache. That's fantastic. Gotta love it. I know, I know. "Bind Variables". Tell that to PeopleSoft who is Oracle :) Chris Taylor Sr. Oracle DBA Ingram Barge Company Nashville, TN 37205 Office: 615-517-3355 Cell: 615-354-4799 Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of K Gopalakrishnan Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:47 AM To: Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: ASSM - dynamic memory resizing Amir, The frequency depends on the memory pressure. I am not aware whether there are any fixed intervals , where MMAN checks the memory allocations. However you can trace the operations using "_memory_management_tracing". -Gopal On Nov 30, 2007 8:50 AM, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, > Does anyone know what process does the dynamic memory resizing when ASSM > is enabled? Also, what is the frequency of this operation or is it > triggered by some event? From the v$sga_dynamic > _components.last_oper_time, this does not seem to be triggered at fixed > time intervals. > > Thanks > Amir > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface, Oracle Press 2004 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ Author: Oracle Database 10g RAC Handbook, Oracle Press 2006 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007146509X/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l